A 48-hour military exercise involving Israeli air force, artillery, infantry and engineering units was completed in Sinai today. A military communique said the exercise which included the practice-crossing of a large waterway was aimed at putting into practice some of the lessons learned in the Yom Kippur War.
The large-scale day and night maneuvers were witnessed in part by Premier Yitzhak Rabin, a former Chief of Staff, Defense Minister Shimon Peres, Chief of Staff Gen. Mordechai Gur and senior officers and foreign military attaches, the communique said. The exercise, described as the biggest by Israel’s armed forces since the war last Oct. coincided with the practice mobilisation of Israeli army, navy and air force reserves completed yesterday.
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